Anti-Hunting Group Collects Minimum Signatures In North Dakota
Posted by Tom Remington on August 6, 2008
A group opposed to ranch hunting in North Dakota, has managed to eke out 12,964 signatures for a petition to get a citizen’s initiative on the November ballot to put an end to elk ranching and hunting preserves. The group disguised as a hunting group, the North Dakota Hunters for Fair Chase, needed a minimum of 12,844 signatures by midnight on Tuesday, August 5.
Typically, a few hundred signatures are discarded as invalid and with this group, headed by Roger Kaseman, having only 120 more signatures than needed, it appears that there will be no ballot come November.
Tom Remington
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Well North Dakotas little anti hunting band group got the bad news today.
“BISMARCK – North Dakota voters will not be deciding a ban on “captive hunting” in November, Secretary of State Al Jaeger said Monday afternoon.
Jaeger said he had to disqualify 164 signatures turned in on last Tuesday’s deadline, because the signatures were on incomplete petitions.
The sponsoring committee turned in what they said was an estimated 12,964 signatures. They needed 12,844 valid signatures. The secretary of state’s staff tallied only 12,915 signatures. When 164 had to be disqualified, the measure no longer met the legal requirements to go on the ballot.’
Had me wondering for awhile just how smart the people of North Dakota really were but apparently there were enough that wouldn’t sign the HSUS backed anti hunting measure to make a difference. Chalk up another victory for the real hunters.
August 11th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Great news! Thanks, J.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:04 pm